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SUMMARY:Caroline Adderson at the BOOKED! Fernie Writers' Series
DESCRIPTION:Caroline Adderson\, author of the short story collection A Way to Be Happy\, is appearing as the last writer in the BOOKED! Fernie Writers’ Series 25/26 season. Caroline will be speaking in conversation with local author Angie Abdou. \nThe event is free to attend\, and will take place on Thursday\, May 26 2026 at 7PM PDT. The event is 19+ event in accordance with their liquor license. \nMore details and registration here. \nOrder a copy of A Way to Be Happy here! \nABOUT A WAY TO BE HAPPY \nLonglisted for the 2024 Giller Prize • A Globe 100 Best Book of 2024 • A CBC Best Fiction Book of the Year \nOn New Year’s Eve\, a pair of addicts robs a string of high-end parties in order to fund their own recovery. A recently separated woman relocates to a small northern town\, where she receives a life-changing visitation\, and a Russian hitman\, suffering from a mysterious lung ailment\, retrieves long-buried memories of his past. In the nineteenth century\, a disparate group of women coalesce in the attempt to aid a young girl in her escape from a hospital for the insane. These are but some of the remarkable characters who populate these stories\, all of them grappling with conflicts ranging from mundane to extraordinary. Caroline Adderson’s A Way to Be Happy considers what it means to find happiness—and how often it comes through the grace of others. \nABOUT CAROLINE ADDERSON \nCaroline Adderson is the author of five novels (A Russian Sister\, Ellen in Pieces\, The Sky Is Falling\, Sitting Practice\, and A History of Forgetting)\, two previous collections of short stories (Pleased to Meet You and Bad Imaginings)\, as well as many books for young readers. Her award nominations include the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award\, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award\, two Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes\, the Governor General’s Literary Award\, the Rogers’ Trust Fiction Prize\, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist. The recipient of three BC Book Prizes\, three CBC Literary Awards\, and the Marian Engel Award for mid-career achievement\, Caroline lives and writes in Vancouver.
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LOCATION:Fernie Heritage Library\, 492 3 Ave\, Fernie\, BC\, V0B 1M0\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Author Series,Discussion,Festival
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SUMMARY:Don Gillmor at TIFA: Uncovering Hidden Fractures
DESCRIPTION:Don Gillmor\, author of Cherry Beach\, will be appearing at TIFA for the panel ‘Uncovering Hidden Fractures’. Don will be joined by Lilja Sigurðardóttir for a conversation on building atmosphere in modern crime fiction. The event will be moderated by Steven Beattie\, and a book signing will follow. \nThe event will take place on Saturday\, June 6 at 2PM. A festival pass is required. \nMore details here. \nGet Cherry Beach here! \nABOUT CHERRY BEACH \nA brutal murder exposes secret real estate deals\, a corrupt police force\, and the dark heart of a city simmering with unrest. \nWhen two girls are found murdered in a rundown Toronto highrise\, Jamieson Abel and his partner are first on the scene. Abel is a law school dropout turned police detective chronically at odds with his colleagues and perpetually on the brink of being terminated\, and Davis is the department’s only female officer of colour. Both understand their being partnered as a form of banishment\, but when the details of the murder go public at the start of an excruciatingly hot summer\, they find themselves thrust into the centre of a front page investigation that will bring to a head the city’s long history of shady real estate deals and racist disenfranchisement. \nIntricately plotted and brilliantly layered\, Cherry Beach is a gripping literary crime novel that examines class\, race\, and corruption in the most multicultural city in the world. \nABOUT DON GILLMOR \nDon Gillmor is the author of To the River\, which won the Governor General’s Award for nonfiction. He is the author of five novels\, Cherry Beach\, Breaking and Entering\, Long Change\, Mount Pleasant\, and Kanata; a two-volume history of Canada\, Canada: A People’s History; and nine books for children\, two of which were nominated for the Governor General’s Award. He was a senior editor at The Walrus\, and his journalism has appeared in Rolling Stone\, GQ\, Saturday Night\, Toronto Life\, the Globe and Mail\, and the Toronto Star. He has won twelve National Magazine Awards and numerous other honours. He lives in Toronto.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/don-gillmor-at-tifa-uncovering-hidden-fractures/
LOCATION:Victoria College Chapel\, 91 Charles St W\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 2C7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival
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SUMMARY:Garth Martens: Watershed Press Cumberland Readings
DESCRIPTION:Come on out for a summer poetry reading in Cumberland\, where Garth Martens will be reading from his latest poetry collection\, Who Else in the Dark Headed There. He’ll be joined by fellow writer Robert Bringhurst who will launch his book Buying the Ghosts a Drink. \nMore details here! \nGrab a copy of Who Else in the Dark Headed There here. \nABOUT WHO ELSE IN THE DARK HEADED THERE \nIn his first collection since the Governor General’s–nominated Prologue for the Age of Consequence\, Martens adds an autobiographical lens to his concerns about class and labour. \nA mother disappears. A son struggles to make sense of the life she left behind. Set against the stark northern Alberta of the 1980s and 90s\, Who Else in the Dark Headed There follows a man reaching through time to find the child he was and the father he is becoming. \nBeneath this waking world is another world\, of the overheard\, of the unsaid. To enter is to find a lyricism finely wrought and hallucinatory\, a depth of feeling and fidelity to metaphor in all its guises—but most of all an urgent relationship with language. Here\, in a reconstruction of childhood’s rooms\, Garth Martens approaches the past not as a record but as a pressure\, a “muscled concentration” that reorders\, resuscitates\, and redoubts. \nABOUT GARTH MARTENS \nGarth Martens is the author of Prologue for the Age of Consequence and Who Else in the Dark Headed There. For his first book\, he was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. He is also a past winner of the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. His poetry appears in Dark Mountain Project\, Poetry Ireland\, Hazlitt\, This Magazine\, Vallum\, Fiddlehead\, and Best Canadian Poetry. He is also a member of Palabra Flamenco\, a literary flamenco ensemble that joins traditional flamenco dance and music with poetry and oral storytelling. He lives in Victoria\, BC.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/garth-martens-watershed-press-cumberland-readings/
LOCATION:Masonic Lodge\, 2687 Dunsmuir Ave\, Cumberland\, BC\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival,Reading
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SUMMARY:Garth Martens at WORD Vancouver
DESCRIPTION:Poet Garth Martens (Who Else in the Dark Headed There) will be at WORD Vancouver festival for the panel “The Art of Transformation.” Garth will be joined in conversation by Eve Joseph and Billeh Nickerson\, moderated by Renée Sarojini Saklikar\, as they each travel through very different landscapes: a mother’s disappearance\, the haunted rooms of childhood\, and a hospital stay that prompts reflections on mortality\, luck\, and survival. Through inventive and deeply attentive uses of language\, each writer transforms lived experience into something unexpected\, illuminating how memory reshapes the past\, how imagination unsettles the ordinary\, and how poetry can help us navigate uncertainty and change. Through loss\, humour\, wonder\, and resilience\, these poets reveal what endures and what becomes possible in the aftermath of transformation. \nThe event will take place on Saturday\, September 19 at 11AM\, at the Poetry Tent in UBC Robson Square. \nMore details here. \nGet Who Else in the Dark Headed There here! \nABOUT WHO ELSE IN THE DARK HEADED THERE \nIn his first collection since the Governor General’s–nominated Prologue for the Age of Consequence\, Martens adds an autobiographical lens to his concerns about class and labour. \nA mother disappears. A son struggles to make sense of the life she left behind. Set against the stark northern Alberta of the 1980s and 90s\, Who Else in the Dark Headed There follows a man reaching through time to find the child he was and the father he is becoming. \nBeneath this waking world is another world\, of the overheard\, of the unsaid. To enter is to find a lyricism finely wrought and hallucinatory\, a depth of feeling and fidelity to metaphor in all its guises—but most of all an urgent relationship with language. Here\, in a reconstruction of childhood’s rooms\, Garth Martens approaches the past not as a record but as a pressure\, a “muscled concentration” that reorders\, resuscitates\, and redoubts. \nABOUT GARTH MARTENS \nGarth Martens is the author of Prologue for the Age of Consequence and Who Else in the Dark Headed There. For his first book\, he was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. He is also a past winner of the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. His poetry appears in Dark Mountain Project\, Poetry Ireland\, Hazlitt\, This Magazine\, Vallum\, Fiddlehead\, and Best Canadian Poetry. He is also a member of Palabra Flamenco\, a literary flamenco ensemble that joins traditional flamenco dance and music with poetry and oral storytelling. He lives in Victoria\, BC.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/garth-martens-at-word-vancouver/
LOCATION:UBC Robson Square\, 800 Robson Street\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 3B7\, Canada
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